Support for telephone receiving and transmitting sets



March 3, 1931. w. M. VALENTINE SUPPORT FOR TELEPHONE RECEIVING ANDTRANSMITTING SETS Filed Jan. 25

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Patented Mar. 3, 1931 t UNITED STATES WILLIAM M. VALENTINE, OFROCHESTER, NEW YORK SUPPORT non TELEPHONE RECEIVING AND TRANSMITTINGsn'rs Application filed January 25, 1926. Serial No. 83,426;

The present invention relates to supports for telephone receiving andtransmitting sets and an object of the invention is to provide a supportwhich will enable the set to be readily 5, removed from the support and,at the same time, will hold the set against accidental displacement bythe support. A further object of the invention is to provide a supportwhich will be inexpensive to manufacture, simple in construction andwill effectively hold a telephone receiving set against accidentaldisplacement therefrom.

To these and other ends, the invention consists of certain parts andcombinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described: thenovel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

' In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the support;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the support showing the base of atelephone receiving set; and

Fig. 4 is a detail View of. the stop used on the conductors.

It is well-known that telephone receiving sets are in many instancesinjured by being displaced accidentally from their support. Provisionhas heretofore been made for hold- 39 ing the set to the support, butthis holding means has been such that the removal of the set from thesupport has been accomplished onlywith difficulty and as a consequencethe user of the telephone set has been unable to immediately remove theset from the support for the purpose of holding the set in his or herhands.

According to this invention the set 1s so connected to the support thataccidental blows on the side will not displace the same fromthe supportnor will pull on the conductor wires cause such displacement.

An embodiment of this invention comprises a base member 1 having anysuitable attaching means such as ears 2 depending from the base memberat the rear edge thereof and adapted to be secured by screw fasteners 3to any suitable supporting means 4. The base member preferably has aflat top and may be W formed with marginal ribs 5 arranged to cosetsupport on the base piece 1. This slot or way preferably has a sharpbend 8 therein adjacent the inner end thereof. In order to strengthenthe base especially when the latter is made of casting, ribs 7 may beformed on the underside of the base on the opposite sides of the slot.The slot is provided in order that the'conductors 9 of the telephone setmay be passed inwardly from the outer end toward the rear end of theslot beyond the bend 8. In this way when the base of the telephone setrests upon the base piece 1, the conductors which connect with the basepiece 6 pass downwardly through the base. As a consequence should anyaccidental pulls be imparted to the conductors, the tendency would be todraw the base member 6 of the 56H more firmly to the base piece 1 of thesupport and hold the set more firmly to the support.

In order to prevent accidental blows on the top of the receiving setdisplacing the set from the support, a stop may be arranged wires movingfreely toward the outer end of the slot. The lugs 5 at the margin of thesupport 1 serve to engage the base 6 on the support and preventaccidental lateral displacement of the set, particularly in connec' tionwith the stop on the conductor wires.

It will be seen that the receiving set may be readily disconnected fromthe support by lifting the base 6 to clear the lips or projections 5 andthen drawing the conductor wires With the stop thereon forwardly throughthe slots 7 to the outer end thereof. The set may be readily placed onthe support by reversing this action.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A support. .fora telephone set comprising a supp onting base havingsupporting surface on which the base of the telephone set may rest,"saidsupporting base having a slot extending from the -forward .edge theneof:I

rearwardly through the supporting surface to a pointi'n'rear-"ofthat-portion o'f'the'sur-* face designed to be engaged bythe base of the telephone set through Whi'oh the eord of the telephoneset may .lead from .the" =base,'- "saidv slot having :a bend 1adjaoentthe: innen end thereof foriretarding !the movement of the-v cord.

2. in icombi-nat-ion with a membento be sup-jported -provided :avithfiaoord,r-a supporting base-having; a slot opening in one endh-atthewforward e:dge,-;:ofithev 'suppont through whioh the cord;passes,a:ancli-a stopo secured toithe.

eord below the base to cooperate with 1 the undersidefof the: latterinorder r to hold the member to [the support, said stop being, moveableuwith theflcord in order-"to permit a such-- cord towbezpassedithrough :the :'open end"; of;

3. A .supporttor'telephone sets, comprising: attaching means a baseprojeotingtfiorw-ardlyv. from. the attaching means andhaving a. Widesupporting isurifiace for :the base of stand-- f ard: telephone; set;said. supportingrbase have ing aslot openeattheviironti edge oftherbase:at the :sideoopposite:itheesupporting; lTlBflJH-SI and: extendingrearwardly. toward: the:attaohing "IIIGZLIISitO ta; pointrin rear ofthat portion of the'ba'se zdesignedi to sberzengaged; byi the: base.of-ithe telephone setr 4. @A support for telephonei'sets :oomprising.-atta'ching means 'ia basew-sprojecting for- Wardly. from-the attachingmeans: andahawingw a Widesupportingrsunfacefor the base. of astandard;-telephonezseu/ said supporting? :lba'se v having slot: openvatthe? front: edgeuof the".

base at 'Ithe SldEi: opposite i the supporting means ;.extending'rearwardly; toward the at: taching meansrtoapoint-iin rear ofthat port-wtion ofrthev-b'a'se designed to be engagedbythe base of thetelephonefset: and having an offset portion adjacentits rear-send; 1:

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